On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:09:24 +0100, James Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fixed Length Trial? Public Value Test? (one has to love the steps to > get something done. bravo for trying).
There's been a fair bit of BBC bashing on this list in the past, so thank you for recognising that we do care and we are trying ;-) > Sure it makes sense - i'm not being overly grumpy, just assuming that > most of the archive will have had to have been transcoded into > something to enable reasonable online delivery; I presume it's stored > in a petabyte archive store someplace, in some kind of raw or semi- > raw format natively - thus encoding it --- getting it to real / wm is > great- you have that, but adding in a divx/mpg transcoder so that a > level of quality is preserved would be great. > > Why do i care? because whilst streaming is great for live events, > imho... it's not really fantastic for enjoying the backlist. I would love the content in different formats too. As Tom said in another reply, Flash would be great as an option, as would higher quality download only versions. I know the Archive team are thinking about this stuff, but I don't know any details. > I hope that if this gets past the various layers of governance and > gets budget to become a 'real' project, some effort into hooking up > into bittorrent (I'm sure Bram could come up with some trickery to > have certified users (ie, license fee payers ;)) only which would > permit some kind of higher bandwidth product. I would guess it's more likely that the Archive will become more closely linked to iPlayer as time goes on, but that would provide the same advantages. Cheers Jonathan - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
